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Lee Cronin

Chemistry

Chemist Lee Cronin is building an alien to work out why life exists

Lee Cronin is making a vast chemical robot – and an alien – to find out why life exists and if we can detect it on other worlds

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The team inspects the tree

Environment

Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees

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jelly-like substance

Life

Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly

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Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military

Space

Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military

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James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

Humans

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

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Life on Mars

Definition

Life on Mars

Why do we have sex?

Definition

Why do we have sex?

alien planet with three suns

Space

Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life

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Technology

Working hypothesis: from Raspberry Pi to abolishing time

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Mars rover

Space

Unique chance to confirm methane spikes – and perhaps life – on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected a brief burp of methane on Mars, and we may be able to confirm the signal because satellites were monitoring the same region

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Question

How did life begin?

Blue Planet II’s Steve Simpson explores the sounds of the ocean

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Environment

How climate change is hitting crab hunting in the mangroves of Brazil

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Life

Some baby dinosaurs crawled before learning to walk on two legs

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